英語検定ライティング準１級（第407回）

週刊誌「ライバルには差をつけたい話」

ある有能なサッカー選手が代表チームを離れることとなった。最終的に彼は無実だと証明されたが栄誉あるサムライブルーの一員として嘱望していたものを失った。悪評高い週刊誌は偽情報を流布した。よって重罪人として裁かれなくてはならない。
A certain capable football athlete was eliminated from the national team called “Samurai Blues,” where he was finally proved to be someone innocent, but he lost what he had wanted to gain as one of the representatives of such a honorable team due to malicious fake information provided by the notorious weekly magazine, which must be sentenced as someone tremendously guilty, we know.

週刊誌は営利企業だ。スクープは儲けになる。人気のある有名人を奈落の底に突き落とそうとする記事には悪意がある。同時に一般庶民はスキャンダルやゴシップが大好物だ。他人の不幸は単調で退屈な生活から彼らを救出する。スッキリするのだ。
A weekly magazine never belongs to NPO, so they must pursue something profitable called “scoops,” otherwise, they would fail to gain incomes and salaries, we assume.
After all, he or she sometimes invents something vicious, where numerous popular talents have been brought into the deadly, lethal, critical and threatening situations.
Simultaneously, a tremendously large number of ordinary citizens in our society might absolutely welcome such malicious gossips and scandals exposed in the weekly magazines because others’ unfortunates cannot fail to rescue them from their boring and monotonous life, in other words, the invented fake information enables them to refresh themselves from the bottom of their hearts.

政治家の贈収賄や腐敗が週刊誌によって明らかになることもある。よって週刊誌は第４の正義としての側面もある。だがこれらの記事はゴシップ好きの中年女性には刺さらない。政治に興味がないからだ。汚職に怒りを持つ有権者には役立つ記事だ。
A weekly magazine often exposes politicians’ corruptions to the public, which should be evaluated highly as the fourth power, someone judicial, otherwise, we fail to be informed of their bravery and something malicious and vicious conducted by the notorious government party filled with various kinds of frauds, tax criminals, he says.
However, to our sorrow, such articles about politicians’ corruptions never bring home to numerous middle-aged women, in other words, senior female gossipmongers.
The most persuasive reason is that almost all of them aren’t interested in something political and economic in the least, to our disappointment, an online article says.
In conclusion, numerous voters with something furious against their corruptions might treasure such useful and helpful information supplied by the magazines, we know.